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In an address to the press about the failed Christmas Day bombing by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, President Barack Obama called on Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to work with the national laboratories to on technology to detect explosives before explosives can get on airplanes.
Earlier this week, Congressman Ben Ray Luján, D-N.M., wrote a [...]

Former U.S. Congressman Steve Pearce, who is running for his former seat in Congress, called for the resignation or firing of Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano on his campaign blog late Wednesday evening. Pearce cited “three strikes” against the former Arizona governor, including the recent failed Christmas Day terror attack on an airplane over [...]

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano reiterated the president’s stated commitment to immigration reform during a speech at New Mexico State University on Wednesday. Although she could not say when such a proposal will come to the forefront, Napolitano said the groundwork is already being laid behind the scenes for an immigration reform bill.

The 2009 Domenici Public Policy Conference will be held today and Thursday at New Mexico State University, and among the high-profile officials scheduled to speak is U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.

Top-level Obama administration officials in Albuquerque today said they are beefing up the country’s efforts to squeeze the drug flow from Mexico to keep the violent drug cartel turf wars from spilling over onto U.S. soil. All Source Information Center, a.k.a New Mexico’s fusion center, is said to be key to that goal.

Many of the media wondered where Gov. Bill Richardson was Friday when he was a no-show at a University of New Mexico event featuring U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. He is the governor after all.

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said at the University of New Mexico earlier today that federal officials are doing southbound inspections of rail and vehicles to stop the flow of cash into Mexico and to the drug cartels.

U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano received a warm, New Mexico welcome Friday. Napolitano grew up in Albuquerque and went to school here.

Today’s meeting of the Homeland Security Advisory Council, featuring Secretary Janet Napolitano, at the University of New Mexico got started shortly after 10 a.m. Watch the archived video stream here:

U.S. Department of Homeland Security head Janet Napolitano and Attorney General Eric Holder will be in Albuquerque on Friday to unveil President Obama’s 2009 National Southwest Border Counternarcotics Strategy.
The two cabinet-level Obama advisers will also be joined by Office of National Drug Control Policy Director Gil Kerlikowske, a.k.a. the border czar.

“I’ve got a job.” 
That’s what Janet Napolitano, head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security – and former governor of Arizona — said to New Mexico press today, according to the Albuquerque Journal. She was replying to rumors that she may be the replacement for retiring U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice David Souter.

Last week, the former secretary of the New Mexico Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management was unanimously approved by the U.S. Senate for a position in the Obama administration.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano will visit El Paso and Columbus, N.M., on Wednesday as her agency works with local law enforcement to attempt to combat arms and cash smuggling and illegal immigration.

Although then-Sen. Barack Obama voted in 2006 to approve the fence strategy, he said on the presidential campaign trail last year that he would “reverse” Bush-era fence policies in favor of a “better approach,” like deploying more border guards and installing better surveillance technologies.

When Bill Richardson leaves the New Mexico governor’s mansion to become U.S. secretary of commerce, his Democratic lieutenant governor, Diane Denish, will take over where he left off. Although the two certainly have different governing styles, their policy views do not diverge wildly.
This is not the case in Arizona, where there is no lieutenant governor [...]